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NEWS SUMMER 2011UPS Teamstersto Receive 12-CentCOLA Increase————— Inflation Relief Kicks in August 1 —————Teamsters who are seniority employeesUPSand who have completed their appropriatewage progression schedule will receive a 12-cent-per-hour cost-of-living adjustment (COLA)effective August 1, 2011, as set forth in the NationalMaster UPS Agreement.Those employees who are in a wage progressionat that time will receive the increase once they completethe progression.These payments are in addition to the scheduledgeneral wage increase of 42.5 cents per hour, alsoeffective August 1, 2011.Article 33 of the National Master UPS Agreementprovides for a COLA in the event that the ConsumerPrice Index (CPI) indicates a significant increase ininflation. The CPI increased 4.1 percent at the end ofMay from the prior 12 months, thus, the COLA inthe contract was triggered.“This is fantastic news for our members, especiallysince so many Americans continue to feel thepain of rising gas and food prices,” said Ken Hall,International Vice President and Director of thePackage Division. “This COLA will become andremain a fixed part of the base wage rate for alljob classifications.”Employees who have not completed their appropriatewage progression on August 1, 2011 willreceive the adjustment on the date they completetheir wage progression schedules.For employees paid under the mileage provisionsof Article 43, the COLA increase will be 0.3(three-tenths of a cent) cents per mile.4 | upsTEAMSTER | SUMMER 2011 | www.teamster.org
BackPay atCSIUPS Cartage Services Members Win Large SettlementCartage Services members scored a big winUPS recently after it was determined that the companywas failing to follow the proper new-hire wage progressionin the contract.The story began in February 2009 when Local 344Business Agent Bill Carroll discoveredthat UPS CSI (Cartage ServicesInc.) was not following the propernew-hire wage progression.A grievance was filed and made itsway through the grievance procedure.Meanwhile, the TeamstersPackage Division notified all CSIlocal unions to review the issue intheir areas. Several locals discoveredthe same problem and also invokedthe grievance procedure.The violation involved a provisionin the National CSI Supplement to theNational Master UPS Agreement.When the 26 former Menlo “whitepaper” contracts were brought intothe master agreement as a single supplement,there was a wide range ofwages, from $16 per hour up to $27per hour.Modeled after the part-time wage “catch-up” from the1997 and 2002 collective bargaining agreements, the CSI“catch-up” provision brings lower-paid full-time CSI driver/dockworkersup to equivalency with full-time air driversunder Article 40 by the end of the current contract.This is achieved by providing an additional semi-annualwage increase over and above the Article 41 general wageincrease.Under the Local 344 progression, the newly hired drivermakes a percentage of the current top rate. UPS violatedthe contract by only using the NMUPSA GWI to calculatethe new-hire percentage, ignoring the“catch-up” for new hires. The unionadvanced the grievance through thegrievance procedure while continuouslyattempting to resolve the issue.The union made it clear that nothingshort of full back pay would resolvethis case.After deadlocking at the NationalGrievance Committee, the case wasslated for arbitration in February2011. Just prior to the hearing, UPSconceded that they were not followingthe contract. The union made it clearthat any areas that were being paidincorrectly must be resolved throughthis case. Ultimately, six employees atLocal 344 were brought up to the correctwage and have received morethan $21,000 in back pay.“I am delighted in the outcome ofthis grievance, which continues the overall progress that’sbeen made for CSI members during the past five years,”Carroll said. “By the last year of the current agreement,our members at UPS/CSI in Milwaukee will enjoyimproved wages of more than $8 per hour and a pensionbenefit accrual that has nearly tripled.”www.teamster.org | SUMMER 2011 | upsTEAMSTER | 5
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